Since a new thread was made about the Eastern Catholic churches, I'm gonna remind people of what the OP was, since I don't think I've gotten a rational answer to it.
Let's imagine for the sake of argument a 10 year old Protestant child.
He has been baptized.
He "believes in Jesus", believes Jesus is God, believes Jesus died for his sins.
He hasn't committed any mortal sins.
However, he believes that the Bible is the only thing that matters to Christianity, because that's what his parents told him. he doesn't know anything about Catholicism. His parents told him to just read the Bible and follow it. So that's what he does.
He dies.
Where does he go?
I don't see how he can go to Limbo. Limbo is for (some of) the unbaptized. But he's been baptized. He's been ontologically changed into a Christian. So I don't see how he can go there.
I don't see how he could go to the fires of Hell, he hasn't committed any actual mortal sins, and we know per florence that to actually be damned to the fires of Hell you have to have committed a mortal sin.
So it seems to me logically that he would go to heaven. Not because he "deserves it" per se, but because, being baptized, being regenerated, he is a transformed creature, and thus without any mortal sins on his soul, he would ultimately attain the beatific vision (perhaps after some time in purgatory.)
However, according to Ladislaus, and I think the other "feeneyites" (descriptor, not insult) I don't see how he could go to heaven. While he's totally not culpable for this, he *doesn't* have the correct formal motive of faith. He's trusting his own interpretation of the Bible for truth. Not the Catholic Church.
I could be missing some fine distinction here, I just don't know what he is.
Note that my issue here is one of justice, not of emotion. I'm not "emotionally bothered" by him ending up in Limbo, I just don't see how he could logically end up there.
Now I realize this isn't an apology for any Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc. being able to be saved, but again, *that's not the point of this thread*, this one is about the baptized who have incorrect formal motives of faith.